FP&A Manager
About Calm
We have a simple mission at Calm: To make the world a happier and healthier place.
The heart of Calm is digital but the brand is expanding offline into a variety of products and services that bring more peace, clarity and perspective into people’s busy lives. We are building Calm into the Nike of the Mind. We believe Calm can become one of the most valuable and meaningful brands in the world.
Over 100 Million people have downloaded the app and we are growing by 100,000 new downloads a day. The company is profitable and headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Calm was co-founded by Alex Tew (Million Dollar Homepage) and Michael Acton Smith (Mind Candy, Moshi Monsters, Firebox).
About the Role
Our ideal candidate is a hands-on FP&A professional who embraces ambiguity and can work independently to solve problems. You will play a critical role in building a world-class FP&A function while partnering with accounting, legal, budget owners, management, operations, and all employees across the Calm. This role ensures our procurement, hiring, and revenue reporting processes are smoothly incorporated into our forecast, while implementing process and process improvements with an emphasis on automation at scale.
We are looking for the right candidate that’s passionate about finance operations and thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced, and feedback-driven environment. You're highly self-motivated, have a stellar work ethic and you're looking for the right company to support your growth. If this is you, we’d love to meet you!
Outcomes
- Partner with People and Talent teams to track open roles, ensuring forecast accuracy
- Partner with Legal and Operations to ensure new contracts are reflected in the forecast
- Support monthly FP&A Syncs, ensuring estimates are reflective of most recent activity
- Partner with Budget Owners with on-going and ad-hoc reporting and decision support
- Coordinate with Accounting ensuring accuracy and completeness of monthly financials
- Drive new controls, like a purchase request process, to monitor incremental spending
- Consolidate metrics from each team to drive top-line forecast and cost allocations
- Build out Adaptive planning model to ensure Finance scales with organizations growth
- Prepare various deliverables for Board of Directors including 409a and equity approvals
- Forecast GAAP and Non-GAAP financial statements, including Statement of Cash Flow
- Monitor industry and competitor financial performance, informing long term targets
- Understand and evolve reporting of KPIs for B2C and B2B subscription business models
- Provide support on recurring and ad hoc reporting requests from investors and others
- Support quarterly rolling forecasts, annual and long-range planning processes
- Perform detailed variance analysis, highlighting trends and business drivers
- Serve as a thought leader to improve and simplify processes, building scalable solutions
- Develop and optimize workflows that consolidate large complex data sets
- Drive effective teamwork, communication, and collaboration across multiple groups
- Develop monthly reporting dashboards for distribution to the Management team
- Serve as a leader and positive role model representing the Finance/Ops team at Calm
Competencies
- Minimum 6 years of progressive experience in FP&A with a strong understanding of accounting
- Experience managing, integrating, and building models in Workday Adaptive Planning (Adaptive Insights)
- Experience with B2C, Subscription, and B2B SaaS business models and metrics such as ROAS, LTV, CAC, Churn, CPP, ASP, Retention, etc. in order to influence decision making
- Experience with private and public companies, specifically around monthly/quarterly reporting process
- Ability to lead the corporate function for a growing multi-business organization
- Can-do attitude and effective communication skills with an apt for building strong working relationships across the company and a strong desire to drive change
- Self-driven and proactive to follow up on all open items while moving multiple projects forward and meet time constraints
- Ability to deeply analyze data to solve complex problems
- Ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple and impactful recommendations and influence senior stakeholders and business partners
- An analytical mindset with comfort on prioritizing multiple tasks
- Builder at heart and thrives in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Commitment to process improvement and the ability to think “out of the box”
- Advanced understanding of GAAP reporting standards
- Adaptive, advanced Excel, GDoc, Tableau, SQL, NetSuite, SFDC experience is preferred
- Passion for what we do!
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Unlimited PTO
- We pay your medical, dental, & vision insurance premiums
- 401K
- Commuter benefits
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Apple equipment
- Opportunity to work with a product focused on making the world happier and healthier
- And much more!
Calm is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, both in our hiring practices and in our experiences as a Calm employee. We strive to create a mindful and respectful environment where everyone can bring their authentic self to work, and experience a culture that is free of harassment, racism, and discrimination.
Calm is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Calm is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. Please inform Calm’s Recruiting team if you need any assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.
